roccoschili Chapter 660 Trip to Hawaii (52)
Chapter 660 Trip to Hawaii (52)
new York.
Manhattan, fourth floor of Gold Coin Hotel.
The thick night outside the window makes the room where Odis Parker lives every day look particularly "bright" ~
In front of Polly, there was a simple vegetable + fruit salad, which could be regarded as tonight's dinner.
Marat Poyezhnev, who came with her, was standing next to Odis Parker, pointing to a world map hanging on the wall and said.
"Nakhodka (haxo?дka) is located less than [-] kilometers east of Vladivostok (Vladivostok), the largest city in the Far East. Its geographical location is very advantageous."
“Before 1950, Nakhodka was a small fishing village. However, after the Chinese government decided to ban foreign ships from entering Vladivostok, the large military port where the Pacific Fleet headquarters is located, Nakhodka quickly became the most important and only civilian deep-water port open to the outside world in the Far East.”
"At the same time, it is also the passenger terminal port of the Trans-Siberian Railway."
Marat stared at the inconspicuous dot on the map, put down his hand and continued.
"At the end of World War II, Germany announced its surrender in May 45 due to the fierce attack from the north and south by the Allied forces."
"However, in the final period when the northern and southern Allied forces were about to invade the Berlin area, the Allied forces composed of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France chose to stand still."
"Because Eisenhower, the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces at the time, believed that he ordered the exhausted troops to attack Berlin in large numbers... Especially in the face of the hundreds of thousands of German troops who shouted that Berlin was about to die, a heavy-loss urban offensive and defensive street battle would definitely break out. .”
"So, the last strategic offensive battle of the great bear country on the European battlefield: the Battle of Berlin, began!"
“1945年4月16日，熊大国集结了超过200万的军队、超过1万门的火炮、超过1500辆坦克，对守卫在柏林的最后几十万德军，展开了为期半个多月猛烈的进攻。。”
"My father, during the battle of the Neisse River Defense Line in the Battle of Berlin, was accidentally injured in his leg and left the battlefield, but he survived by luck."
"My uncle lost his life in a tragic street fight in Berlin."
"In the entire Battle of Berlin, the Xiong Kingdom suffered casualties of more than 20 soldiers."
"but!"
"When Xiong Daguo is still immersed in the joy of occupying Berlin and has not recovered~"
"In August 45, the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused everyone in Xiong Daguo to immediately wake up from the dream of achieving a great victory in World War II."
"The years after World War II~"
"The great power Xiong began to gradually mobilize the main naval forces and some engineering troops to expand the naval base in Vladivostok (Vladivostok) in the Far East, making preparations in advance to expand the size of the Pacific Fleet."
"Around 1950, Vladivostok officially closed its civil and commercial port to the outside world and became a naval fortress in the Far East."
“Nakhodka, located less than [-] kilometers east of Vladivostok, has been selected to become an important import and export trade center in the Far East replacing Vladivostok due to its very superior geographical environment and excellent deep-water port resources.”
"The construction of Nakhodka actually started in 1938~"
"It's just that World War II had broken out on the European battlefield at that time, and Xiong Daguo devoted all his attention to the war, so he put the construction of Nakhodka on hold."
“It was not until 1958 that the first phase of Nakhodka’s port expansion plan was officially completed.”
"At that time, the Xiongguo government also transferred many Gulag prisoners who had participated in World War II to participate in the construction of Nakhodka."
"The Ivanov Seric Popov I'm talking about is a Gulag prisoner who participated in World War II."
"He returned to the Gulag after World War II, and because of his heroic performance in the battle, he was transferred to participate in the construction of the Nakhodka port. He escaped the bloody Suka War in the Gulag."
"But he always thought that he was different from that group of thieves and thieves who committed evil and had no bottom line!"
"..Hmm~"
After listening to this story told by Marat, Odis Parker nodded with satisfaction, invited Marat to sit down and asked.
"How did you and Mr. Popov meet?"
Marat glanced at Polly and smiled: "In 64, when I was studying in Moscow, one of my father's best comrades died of illness."
"It was at that funeral that I met Popov."
"Later, he came out of the Gulag and came to Moscow by train penniless. My father and I warmly entertained him and found him a fairly stable job."
"But he had only been working for a few months when someone spread the news that he had served in the Gulag for many years~"
"Popov was fired within a few days..."
"After many discussions with him, my father and I decided to arrange for him to go to Vladivostok to try his luck."
"Because there is a distant aunt of mine."
"My aunt is married to a Vladivostok border naval officer, and Popov is very familiar with the Nakhodka port east of Vladivostok."
"It just so happened that at that time it was being spread in Moscow... that the government wanted to speed up the construction of the Nakhodka commercial port and make it one of the largest import and export ports in the Far East."
"So, my father gave Popov a few months' salary and put him on the train to Nakhodka."
"Hmm~"
After hearing this, Otis Parker nodded slightly, looked at the very "well-behaved" audience member Polly, and asked.
"Have you been in touch with David?"
"not yet."
"You want me to tell him?"
Polly shrugged indifferently: "Don't you also have a lot of information and need to communicate with him?"
"Hehe~"
Mr. Parker answered with a laugh, thought for a moment, and said to Marat.
"You go find Winston."
"He's going to arrange for you to fly to Hawaii tonight."
"..OK!"
Marat let out a long breath, stood up, nodded to Polly, and strode out of the room.
. . .
Marat, gone.
Odis Parker walked to the wall behind his desk, took off a decorative painting on the wall, opened the safe embedded in the wall, picked out a yellow document bag from inside, and faced Polly smiled.
"I began gathering intelligence related to David's investment plans several months ago."
"Nakhodka, the largest trading port of Xiong Daguo in the Far East, is a good port with deep water, calm waves, light ice conditions, and year-round navigation."
"Since the first phase of expansion was completed in 58, Nakhodka Port underwent another large-scale expansion in 69."
"The current Nakhodka Port has two berthing yards inside and outside, with a port channel depth of 10-13 meters, more than 20 piers, a total length of 3 kilometers, and a total storage area of 5 square meters."
"Due to its good geographical and climatic conditions, the port will not freeze even in severe winter. The terminal can load and unload 20 cargo ships at the same time, and can handle more than 1000 ultra-large tonnage ocean-going cargo ships a year."
“The nine terminals on the northwest coast of Nakhodka are used for the import and export trade of groceries, food, salt, grain, metal, cement, wood and coal.”
"Eight berths on the southeast coast for containers and breakbulk cargo."
Odis Parker walked over to Polly and sat down, took out a few documents from the yellow document bag and handed them to her, and continued.
"In addition, it is the largest tanker port in the Far East."
"More than two-thirds of the crude oil produced from East Siberia's oil fields is transported to crude oil storage depots near Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Nakhodka."
“When the last oil crisis broke out, crude oil exports from the Nakhodka port began to see a spurt of growth!”
“Many international crude oil spot speculators have to secretly contact oil merchants in Nakhodka to purchase relatively cheaper crude oil~”
"Those international crude oil merchants with great powers actually secretly bribed Xiong Daguo's maritime border patrol, and used ocean-going oil tankers flying the Philippine flag as maritime transfer stations to buy tens of thousands of tons of spot crude oil from Xiong Daguo and make huge profits. A lot of money.”
"However, it was their successful speculation that caused many speculators who originally had a wait-and-see attitude to immediately flock to the island country closest to the bear country."
"Island?"
"Why don't they go to Europe?" Polly asked, feeling a little strange.
"Hehe~"
Mr. Parker took out the remaining documents from the document bag and said with a smile: "Because of the geographical location, historical problems and population problems of Xiong Daguo, the Xiong Daguo government is in a very embarrassing stage of development."
"Its land is vast, bordering three oceans and the Black Sea~"
"Its territory spans two continents, Europe and Asia, and its economic, political, educational and financial resources are concentrated in cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg in the west."
“Although the Siberian region and the Far East region east of Lake Baikal are extremely rich in natural resources such as oil, natural gas, wood, and coal, their climate is very harsh and they are thousands of kilometers away from Moscow. Road transportation is extremely inconvenient and is only connected by the Siberian Railway. . . ”
"Even if the Siberian Railway carries more than 100 freight trains every day, day and night, its limited transportation capacity cannot meet the cargo transshipment needs of the Far East!"
"Therefore, those ships that carry resources and goods produced in the Far East must go from the Malacca Strait through the Indian Ocean route and then enter the Suez Canal to reach European ports."
"Oh~"
Polly looked through the information in her hand and felt that Marat's proposal could be carefully planned.
Of course Mr. Parker could guess what she was thinking. He paused for a while and then said.
"The Far East was very backward in development due to limitations of population, climate and transportation."
“We can hardly be completely self-sufficient in food and must rely on Nakhodka and other commercial ports to import agricultural products and daily groceries.”
"Industrial production capacity is almost blank, and there are even very few thermal power plants. Many resources such as wood, coal, and oil are exploited. Due to the lack of support from basic industries, they can only be sold at low prices for raw materials."
"However, since the closed port of Vladivostok was turned into a military fortress, the triangle area consisting of Khabarovsk in the north + Vladivostok + Nakhodka on the sea in the south has ushered in a period of great development."
“In recent years, in the Far East, with this triangular area as the center of development, power generation has accounted for 20% of the total power generation of Xiong Daguo, oil output has accounted for 50%, and resource output such as coal and wood accounted for more than 30%. , and its impact on the economic development of Xiong Daguo is becoming more and more serious!"
"So, the Far East not only has more than one million garrison troops, but also abundant resource output."
"There are also three large cities with a population of over one million, attracting more businessmen to Nakhodka!"
Mr. Parker tilted his head, seeing a bit of "interesting" in Polly's thinking expression, and smiled.
"Since countries started to implement floating exchange rates and the last oil crisis, the treasury of the great bear country was filled with rice dollars, and the ruble also appreciated rapidly!"
“The official foreign exchange standard at the port of Nakhodka is: 1 ruble = 2 meters.”
"These rubles basically lose most of their purchasing power when they leave the Far East."
"So the vast majority of businessmen will choose to settle foreign exchange from the underground foreign exchange market at a price of about 1 ruble = 1 meters."
"The Mr. Popov whom Marat mentioned just now is a big banker in the underground foreign exchange market."
"He owns multiple underground banks and many shops in Nakhodka, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok."
"Popov also has good personal relationships with many generals and senior officials in the military and the governments of the three regions."
"After David and Kanes negotiated a plan to cooperate in purchasing crude oil spot, I told him all this information~"
"If you also want to do some import and export business from Marat's side, take advantage of his relationship with Popov..."
"I think you can give it a try!"
"Because he is a smart man ~ He is also very ambitious!"
"But these ambitions have been laid out openly by him, so that we can see them calmly~"
"So, as long as Marat hasn't grown so big that he thinks he can break away from our support, you can trust him~"
"Yeah!" Polly, who had already made up her mind, put down the information in her hand, tilted her head and looked at Mr. Parker, and teased.
"David said: If you are serious, no one will notice at all..."
"Can't you see there's something wrong with my brain?"
"Hahahaha!"
Mr. Parker laughed and said, "That brat, what else did you say about me?"
"Uh..No more~"
"He just mentioned it casually."
"Oh?"
"is it?"
"Yes~"
Seeing Mr. Parker's expression of "I don't believe it", Polly took her small bag and coat, gestured to him to contact him at any time, and left with a smile.
. . .
Polly, gone.
Otis Parker walked to the world map and stared at Nakhodka in the Far East, somewhat lost in thought.
This small place that was once not favored by people is now becoming a "treasure land" that many forces are fighting for. .
Can Mr. Popov continue to do business safely?
Mr. Parker turned his attention to Hawaii on the Pacific Ocean and smiled.
That kid hid on the island for more than ten days before he finally figured it out~
No matter who wants to climb up, he must go through one or more tests!
Some tests will make a person lose his moral character and completely turn him into a villain with a human face and an animal heart~
Some tests will give people a strong impact, and they will never recover and sink. .
There are also some tests, just like what Mr. Parker once experienced, being swallowed up by greedy desires and an inflated heart!
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On the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii.
Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu.
David stood in front of the hotel, looked back at Giovanni and Rambo who were following him, and smiled at Pamela Randy.
"Please give my regards to your family!"
"See you in New York."
"OK, thanks!"
When Pamela Randy saw David turning around to leave, she quickly puffed up her chest and said.
"There are two bottles of Canadian ice wine in my room..."
"Would you like to go up and have a drink?"
"Um...you mean ice wine?"
"Ok!"
"Isn't it a specialty of Germany? It's also available in Canada?"
Pamela Landy shrugged and smiled: "I heard that it was only a few years ago that someone produced the first Canadian ice wine in British Columbia in western Canada."
"Ah~"
David scratched his head with his hand and saw that Randy didn't seem to be joking, but was seriously "hinting". .
He couldn't help but smile and said: "Thank you!"
"I never knew that I could attract such a warm invitation from a beauty like you..."
"However, when I was on the phone just now, I learned some very important news. I have to deal with it later~"
"So... when we meet next time, I'll invite you to try the cocktails at Wildfire Bar, okay?"
"Okay~" Randy nodded with a trace of regret on his face, gave David a polite hug, turned and walked into the hotel.
Giovanni, who had been watching the conversation between the two of them from a distance, touched Rambo with his shoulder and laughed softly.
"Hey~ look!"
"I'm just saying...David will definitely not go to the room with her!"
"Hehe~"
Rambo, wearing a pair of large sunglasses, smiled crookedly and did not answer.
Giovanni rubbed his chin with his hand and added: "My wife Jin Ji asked me to talk to David about letting Michelle Pfeiffer come to New York for development..."
"Tell me, what should I say?"
Rambo took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed one to Giovanni and said with a smile: "Are you really going to go talk to David...?"
"of course not!"
Giovanni lit the cigarette with his lighter, took a long puff and smiled: "If I really told David about this... I would be the biggest fool!"
"Jin Ji will definitely not be happy, but will be jealous!"
"Haha~" Rambo patted Giovanni's shoulder twice and said with a smile.
"You clearly know this, why are you asking me?"
"Could it be that...you are really attracted to that Michelle Pfeiffer?"
"Tsk!"
Giovanni grinned and thought for a moment, then slowly shook his head and said, "She looks so much like Jin Ji~"
"The way she looks now is exactly like the girl Jin Ji I just met~"
"So... you should understand, right?"
"Hahahaha~"
Rambo laughed and shook his head, sighing: "If I were Jin Ji, I would definitely buy you a plane ticket tonight and let you go back to New York!"
"..." Giovanni lowered his head speechlessly and sighed.
"Mr. Gardener said the same thing just now..."
"Why do you all understand...what is a woman thinking?"
Rambo glanced at David, who was walking towards the two of them, and threw the question to him.
David put his arm around Giovanni's shoulders. After listening, he smiled and asked:
"If you were asked to choose between Kim Ji and Michelle Pfeiffer, you would have to make a choice~"
"Who do you choose?"
"Of course it's Jin Ji!"
"Haha~ Look!"
"Jerome David Salinger, in his book "The Catcher in the Rye" ("The Catcher in the Rye"), has a very classic saying."
"Remember what you should remember, forget what you should forget~"
"Change what you can, accept what you can't."
"So ah~"
"Don't think about these things...you simply can't figure them out."
"Our life is not simple, we can only live it as simply as possible~"
“Since we cannot control the vagaries of life, we should try our best to let ourselves and our families live a simple, happy and prosperous life!”
"...Hmm! I understand." Giovanni threw away the cigarette in his hand and tilted his head to look at David, no longer joking.
"Thank you!"
"Hahaha~ You're welcome!"